What the alien says at the end of the movie is profound. Let me know what you think.
I found the script online. Here is the last part I was talking about:
VOICE:
Relax.
Relax.
Where am I? Where am I?
What do you see?
ALEX:
I don't know. I don't know.
Am I dead?
Not as you
understand it.
Do you fear death?
No.
Do you fear living?
What are you?
Nothing you can understand.
What the fu*k do you want?
We are very curious
about your kind
and your experience of time.
[LAUGHS]
That's all this has been?
It is a curiosity to us.
[CHUCKLING]
So... So all...
All this...
We would like to
understand.
Linear time seems so impractical
a state of being.
To learn is a tediously
slow process...
and with each generation,
it begins anew.
A laborious cycle
of empty promise.
It banishes mankind
to the torment of ignorance.
Forever a child in the dark.
How curious that nature
could punish
a creature so malevolently.
You are condemned
to relearn pain for an eternity.
How painful it must be
to possess self-awareness,
and consciousness
as you do...
trapped in a lower dimension,
such as you are.
Jesus Christ, what the fu*k
do you want from me?
Why did you choose me?
"Choose"?
Yeah.
Why did you choose
to decrypt the message?
You asked me that before.
You came to my house.
We do not understand
decision.
We exist
in one single moment.
One blink of instantaneity.
We understand
everything there is
to be understood
in our world.
Therefore, causality,
probability and consequence
are a mystery to us.
It's something
that doesn't exist in your time.
If man's experience of time
was like ours...
would he remain?
Would he remain?
Would he remain?
Would he remain?
Oh, fu*k.
Relax.
- [GRUNTS]
- Relax.
fu*k! Oh, fu*k.
Relax.
If the cracks of time
were filled
and man had no place
left to hide...
what then?
I don't know. Oh, fu*k.
I don't know. I don't even know
what the fu*k you mean.
What happens
when man must wait no more?
We become you?
Is that something
you'd like?
I can't exist here.
It's making me sick.
You... You're killing me.
But there is only one
certainty for man:
Death.
[AIR WHOOSHES]
Yet man hides
from this inevitability.
Man desires more time
to distance himself from it.
However,
the more time man has...
the more it takes from him.
Prolonging your existence
comes at the cost
of unknown suffering.
Time determines all for man.
Ironic that it should be
both the gift and the thief.
What's it like?
In your world?
You cannot understand.
If you can bridge the gap
between dimensions
to communicate with me,
then you can...
Then you can fu*king try.
You know things
about us...
and about our universe.
Tell me.
If you're seeking answers
to alter
your understanding
of reality...
does that not make your world
a projection
rather than
a perception?
What is the actuality?
Do you see the world
as you imagine it...
or are you observing
what is really there?
If reality is just a projection,
what happens when the source,
when consciousness,
is absent?
Even with an eternity
of self-reflection,
man cannot understand
the difference
between actuality
and illusion.
With every man born
comes a new reality...
all competing in perpetuity.
Perhaps this is why man
is so perpetually at odds.
- So conflicted.
- [GROANING]
- Stop. Stop. Stop.
- So divided.
Stop.
[PANTING]
Am I the only one
you're doing this to?
Would you feel better
if you weren't?
You don't want
to be alone.
I don't wanna suffer.
- You're in pain?
- Yes.
Yes, I'm in pain,
and now I just have to sit here
until I fu*king die.
What if you could return
to a moment
in what you understand
as the past?
Before you were sick?
If I were to travel
back in time?
ALIEN:
Yes.
With the information
you now possess.
How do you think
it would alter your behavior?
What would you decide
to do differently,
if anything at all?
I would tell A.R.I.S.T.
to go fu*k themselves.
You would choose differently?
ALEX:
I would stop this.
I would stop you.
- Remove us from the equation.
- I can't.
ALIEN: You would be
unable to see us.
Doesn't matter.
I would know
that you're there.
I would know that
you were watching.
The idea alone would change
your perception of reality,
and therefore
change your behavior.
Yes.
ALIEN: Why would you behave
differently if there was
nothing you could do
to alter the situation?
- I just would.
- We find this curious.
We don't choose.
We don't decide what happens.
I didn't choose to be here.
I didn't choose to get sick.
Things happen
that we have no control of.
We don't just... We don't just
look at the world...
and paint it however we want.
If you really believe that,
then you believe
you are not in control,
and you exist
at the mercy of all else.
You believe your thoughts
are of no consequence.
If you returned to a time
with knowledge you now possess,
that you did not before...
what would it matter?
What would
our existence matter?
What would
our observations matter?
If time was reset...
and you were put back...
what difference
would it make?
[]
[EXHALES]
ALEX:
Well, that's it.
So...
that's everything.
ALEX [ON COMPUTER]: I don't know
if this is all a test, or...
I do know it can't change.
But, you know, the world
could end tomorrow, but...
[CHUCKLES] fu*k. You know, what...?
What else is new, right?
It's all already happened.
Satellite's been found,
code's been cracked.
Message decrypted.
It was over before it began.
[GRUNTS]
[GROANS]
[GROANS]
So maybe you...
You can't change...
how it ends, but...
Aah!
...you can change
how you get there.
And another thing:
Warn her.
Lie to her.
Spare her from the truth,
so that she can...
She can live in peace.
And then forget.
Forget this message.
Forget what's going to happen.
Forget what's...
What's already happened.
Just...
Just forget everything.
And live.
Read more:
https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk...alien-code
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